To celebrate a wedding anniversary, amateur sleuth/caterer Faith Fairchild and her husband are off to Italy for a vacation. The plan is to spend a romantic weekend in Rome before heading to Florence to visit Faith's former assistant Francesca at her cooking school. But a dark shadow clouds joy when someone is murdered in the Eternal City almost right before the Fairchilds' eyes. Faith struggles to follow a trail more twisting than fusili and ends up putting both herself and her husband in peril.